L'histoire naturelle éclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, la lithologie et la conchyliologie : dont l'une traite des pierres et l'autre des coquillages : ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une nouvelle méthode & une notice critique des principaux auteurs qui ont écrit sur ces matiéres : enrichi de figures dessinées d'après nature

by: Dézallier d'Argenville, A.-J. (Antoine-Joseph), 1680-1765; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1742

Topics: Petrology, Shells

Publisher: A Paris : Chez de Bure l'aìné ...

Collection: biodiversity; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: French

Colophon: De l'imprimerie de Quillau ..

Title printed in red and black; woodcut title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, initials

Errata: p. [492]

Signatures: aA-3Q

Includes bibliographical references and index

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SCNHRB copy (39088013487368) has bound in at end: Appendice de trois nouvelles planches ... (p. 381-394 and 3 plates) from another work; marginalia and other annotations in French refer to text proper; ms. bibliographical note on p. 395 refers to this addition

SCNHRB copy has bookplate of William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library

SCNHRB copy has ink ms. notes on front free endpaper, plates and occasionally in margins of text

SCNHRB copy stamped on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [ms. acc. no.] 321640

SCNHRB copy quarter bound in brown cloth and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine, marbled edges